How do we change our minds? I find this question fascinating and important. To start: only fools never change their mind. Secondarily, it is surprisingly hard to remember on what I actually did change my mind, and equally difficult to…
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Changing my mind: the big list
Tagged with: cognitive dissonance, coherence, epistemology, objectivity, Persuasion
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, Premises, Psychology
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, Premises, Psychology
Perspectives…
In the past few months I’ve spent some time looking for trouble on Twitter. I’ve found some (mild and polite), which translated into plenty food for thought, and eventually allowed me to put some order in my thoughts. The matter…
Tagged with: epistemology, implicit bias, perspective, Predictive Brain, relativism, sexism
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Stupidity
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Stupidity
Sources of error: the illusory illusions of reductionism
While my discussions elsewhere are settling down, it’s time to finally tackle one basic issue that underlies all reductionist endeavours, I need to write this down also to justify much of my claims on matters of brains and minds. In…
Tagged with: bias, consciousness, epistemology, Free will, philosophy of mind
Posted in Neuroscience, Psychology, Science, Stupidity
Posted in Neuroscience, Psychology, Science, Stupidity
Sources of error: Essentialism Fallacy
There is a mistake we all make, and keep making, over and over, at every possible occasion, and will keep making, even after realising that we do. This happens because it is, in general terms, the most useful cognitive mistake…
Tagged with: bias, cognitive bias, Dawkins, Edge.org, epistemology, essetialism
Posted in Philosophy, Science, Stupidity
Posted in Philosophy, Science, Stupidity
Science and ethics (part 2): is there any space for Philosophy?
Where I give my definition(s) of philosophy and explain why it will never die, even when it actively strives to make itself redundant. I’ve been trying to be as rigours and linear as possible, and for some reason I was…
Tagged with: epistemology, Evolutionary Psychology, fluff, knowledge, Language, Religion, turf wars
Posted in Ethics, Evolutionary Psychology, Philosophy, Science
Posted in Ethics, Evolutionary Psychology, Philosophy, Science
A recap of the ground covered so far: am I moving towards “Subjective Science”? Isn’t that a paradox?
When I started this blog, I had plenty of ideas floating about, and knew that the only way to verify their congruence was to write them down, possibly in some recognisable order. The result is surprising, at least to me.…
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Writing my own user manual 